HIV/AIDS

Two Palm Springs area organizations receive large grants from Bank of America

SDGLN Staff
November 8th, 2011

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. -- The Desert AIDS Project and FIND Food Bank recently received grants from the Bank of America Charitable Foundation's Neighborhood Builders grant program.

As a result of the award, the two organizations will each receive $100,000 annually for two years, along with a leadership development program for their senior executives and emerging leaders.

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Meet LGBT History Month icons Virginia Woolf and Pedro Zamora

Equality Forum
October 31st, 2011

Editor's note: October is LGBT History Month. Each day this month, Equality Forum has featured one LGBT icon who has made notable contributions to society. SDGLN has published these stories in the Causes section and the icons featured today are the final two in the 2011 series.

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf was an accomplished 20th century English novelist and one of the founders of the modernist movement. She published nearly 500 essays and nine novels.

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FILM REVIEW with VIDEO: “We Were Here” is a must-see movie about how AIDS changed our lives

Jean Lowerison - SDGLN Critic
October 20th, 2011

Ed Wolf remembers stopping by a drugstore on the way to a double bill of “Now, Voyager” and “Casablanca” on Castro Street in 1981.

In the store window were Polaroid pictures of a man with hideous purple splotches on his body. Scrawled underneath was a note: “Watch out guys, there’s something out there.”

That “something” was AIDS, the so-called “gay plague” which invaded San Francisco like a lethal marauder in the early 1980s and would eventually kill more than 15,000 in that city alone.

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VIDEO: Meet LGBT History Month icon Michael Kirby

Equality Forum
October 19th, 2011

Editor's note: October is LGBT History Month. Each day this month, Equality Forum will feature one LGBT icon who has made notable contributions to society and SDGLN will publish the story in the Causes section.

Michael Kirby is a former justice of the High Court of Australia. He is the world’s first openly gay justice of a national supreme court. When he retired, he was Australia’s longest-serving judge.

HIV disclosure prompts LGBT groups to urge Supreme Court to "give full force to Privacy Act"

SDGLN Staff
October 5th, 2011

NEW YORK -- Late Tuesday, Lambda Legal filed a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of itself and 16 other LGBT, HIV and health advocacy organizations urging the U.S. Supreme Court to affirm a lower court ruling finding that the federal Privacy Act protects against illegal disclosures that result in suffering unrelated to financial losses.

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San Diego to mark National Latino AIDS Awareness Day on Thursday

SDGLN Staff
October 5th, 2011

SAN DIEGO -- In an effort to educate and reduce the number of HIV-infected Latinos in San Diego, the Coalition of Latino AIDS Service Providers (CLASP) will host, for the fourth time, a family event for National Latino AIDS Awareness Day (NLAAD) on Thursday, Oct. 13, at the Sherman Heights Community Center.

CLASP will bring the message to the community with this event, which will include entertainment, food and testimonials of HIV/AIDS infected and affected individuals.

In Haiti, the United Nations finally pledges protections for LGBT people

Paul Canning – LGBT Asylum News
October 3rd, 2011

The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) has won an important comittment for Haitian gay and HIV+ people, its Executive Director, Cary Alan Johnson, has said.

"Becoming Chaz" screening to benefit HIV/AIDS, breast cancer causes

SDGLN Staff
September 30th, 2011

LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Artful Thinking’s Out at the Movies will present the film screening of "Becoming Chaz," nominated for three Emmys, at 9pm Sunday, Oct. 2, at the Art Theatre of Long Beach.

Proceeds will benefit HIV/AIDS and breast cancer causes.

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TODAY: Submit your photo to a "Day with HIV in America" project

Ben Cartwright - SDGLN Staff Writer
September 21st, 2011

CHICAGO -- What does HIV look like?

Nothing, really, says Jeff Berry, editor in chief of Positively Aware Magazine and coordinator of "A Day with HIV in America."

Berry and his team are encouraging people to snap photos of themselves today, living their everyday lives, and send it in to be included in the photo essay project.

Now in its second year, Berry said the purpose of the project is to help remove much of the stigma that still surrounds HIV.

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San Diego's Autumn Classic LGBT softball tournament sells out early

SDGLN Staff
September 20th, 2011

SAN DIEGO — The Autum Classic, the largest annual softball tournament on the West Coast, has already officially "sold out" 10 days ahead of schedule. The local tournament has already accepted the registrations of over 100 teams and will be hosted over the Columbus Day weekend, October 7-9, 2011.

“With over 1,400 athletes coming in from as far away as Philadelphia, Chicago, Orlando and Austin, we are working very hard to make sure this tournament is one of the best we’ve ever put on,” co-director Roman Jimenez said.

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